Recent Profile Articles
The ATHENA Young Professionals Award recognizes emerging leaders, promotes women's leadership, and honors outstanding women and men in their earlier career stages. Sara Lachman, the 2015 recipient of this prestigious award, is a civil litigator with Miller...
Breast density matters—more than some realize, enough that one West Michigan woman and cancer survivor was driven to action. Teresa Hendricks-Pitsch was in seventh grade when she knew she wanted to be an attorney. She wanted to speak up for others; to make injustices...
From serving 20 years as a nurse and hospital administrator at Holland Hospital, to her first role at Holland Home, which she took in 1998, Mina Breuker has established a well-rounded understanding of how to lead in the health profession. Breuker was recently named...
Tiffany Grubaugh translated her love of sports and desire to help people into Fitness and Sports Performance gym, where she has devoted the past four and a half years to coaching clients to achieve their goals. A standout high school and college basketball player who...
Recently, Inc. magazine recognized Grand Rapids' Open Systems Technologies (OST) CEO Meredith Bronk as one of the top 50 women entrepreneurs in the country, citing the company's three-year growth of $39.1 million, and 2014 revenue of $107.9 million. Bronk, who was...
The inspiration for Make Me Up Foundation, Ashley Quinn's nonprofit organization, came from helping a family friend feel beautiful during the course of her treatment for cancer. Quinn, who holds a cosmetology license from the Douglas J Aveda Institute in Grand Rapids,...
The work of Jenison High School art teacher Sara Buzzitta will be among more than 1,550 entries on display at the 7th ArtPrize, which is expected to draw nearly half a million visitors during its 19-day run. For Buzzitta, who recently graduated from Kendall College of...
In four short years, Lynn Happel, DVM, has gone from opening the doors of her newly formed veterinary practice in 2011 to winning the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce's EPIC Award for Woman-Owned Business of the Year in June 2015. Dr. Happel's career represents a...
"Every time I see a butterfly it reminds me of my sister. While I was on-set during eightWest, Paul Collins was a guest and brought a collection of his beautiful work. One painting was a huge pink butterfly sitting on a lily pad, and I fell in love with the piece. For...
Craft beer enthusiast Amy Sherman's reputation as a champion of local food has been fueled by her time working as a chef at local restaurants, by teaching for various culinary programs, and by her television show, The Great American Brew Trail. West Michigan Woman is...